NPR News: 01-25-2026 6PM EST
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Federal and Minnesota officials are offering starkly different messages about the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis after another shooting death by federal Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz asked the public whether they wanted to support an all-powerful federal government that could menace, kill, and kidnap citizens. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino says the nurse who was killed, Alex Preddy, chose to interfere with immigration officers.
What are the contrasting views on immigration enforcement in Minneapolis?
Our Title VIII immigration mission continues, unabated here in Minneapolis, despite yesterday's tragedy that was preventable. by folks making better choices, politicians, journalists,
And would-be anarchists and rioters. Bystander video appears to show multiple federal agents surrounding Preddy on the ground, with some punching him and attempting to restrain him before one agent shoots and kills him. The giant winter storm barreling into the east is expected to continue tomorrow, followed by very low temperatures for days. Snow and ice is triggering a spike in power outages across Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. About one million ratepayers have lost power. As NPR's Frank Morris reports, some counties are experiencing near-total blackouts.
Thick ice breaking trees and power lines cut electricity to four out of five homes and businesses in several north Mississippi counties. Matt Hackworth, a Presbyterian minister in Oxford, Mississippi, is huddling with his wife, son, and parents in a chilly, dark house.
We lost power about 10 minutes till midnight last night and then kept hearing pops and bangs and booms all night from trees breaking under the weight of the ice.
While the storm should be letting up, restoring power to the hardest-hit parts of the South is likely to take weeks. Frank Morris, NPR News, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government has no intention of seeking a free trade agreement with China. As Dan Karpinchuk reports, Carney's comments come a day after President Trump threatened a 100% tariff on Canadian goods if Ottawa concludes a free trade deal in Beijing.
Carney said the deals reached with China rectified just a handful of issues that have emerged over the last couple of years. During his recent trip to China, Carney got a deal that would have Beijing drop tariffs on some Canadian agricultural and seafood products. In return, Canada would allow 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into the Canadian market at 6.1% tariff, down from 100%. Carney points out that under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement, there is a special clause that restricts member countries from entering free trade agreements with non-market economies such as China. For NPR News, I'm Dan Karpenchuk in Toronto.
The New England Patriots are facing the Denver Broncos in the AFC championship game. Later tonight, the LA Rams take on the Seattle Seahawks. It's NPR. A leader in the global eradication of smallpox, Dr. William Fagey, has died. He was 89 years old. He was the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the late 1970s and 1980s. But his greatest achievement came before all that when his work on smallpox while he was a medical missionary in Nigeria. A smallpox outbreak was contained by identifying each case and vaccinating everyone who they might come into contact with. A U.S. tennis prodigy has eliminated three-time finalist Daniel Medvedev, knocking him out of the Australian Open today.
Christina Kulkolia reports from Melbourne.
It took less than two hours for the American 25th seed, Lena Thien, to eliminate the Russian former world number one in straight sets, 6-4, 6-love, 6-3. Fighting back the Melbourne Heat and a late comeback by Daniel Medvedev, Thien stunned spectators and his opponent.
It feels amazing. I mean, so special to do it, especially here where, you know, it's always so special for me to come back and play every year.
At age 20, Thien is the youngest man to reach the Australian Open quarterfinals since Australian Nick Kyrgios in 2015 and the youngest American to do so in over two decades.
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